---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 162"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "162"
heading: "Creation of China corporations restricted"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/162"
units:
  - "Chapter 4 — China Trade"
---

# §162. Creation of China corporations restricted


No [corporation](/usc/15/142.md?p=c) for the purpose of engaging in business within [China](/usc/15/142.md?p=b) shall be created under any law of the United States other than this chapter.


## Source credit

(Sept. 19, 1922, ch. 346, § 29, as added Feb. 26, 1925, ch. 345, § 13, 43 Stat. 997.)